Sinclair buys Fox Sports regional networks

[Jake from State Farm]

Welcome the right wing to sports broadcasting

Sinclair to buy Fox Sports Detroit, 20 other regional networks for $9.6B

 

[exmediahack]

I won’t be right-wing sports broadcasting. That didn’t work out well for them last year.

It’ll just be really cheap and the quality of the people they have on the broadcast will go down sharply.

Sinclair is the second-cheapest group in TV news (after Nexstar).

 

[Starman]

Can't wait for Boris Epshtyn's hot takes on LeBron James.

 

[HanSenSE]

Like I always say when some idiot suggests newspapers go conservative to build circulation back: How do you write a conservative gamer?

 

[Craig Sagers Tailor]

Maybe dedicate a reporter to Trevor Bauer?

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Like I always say when some idiot suggests newspapers go conservative to build circulation back

One of the great lines of the Detroit Newspaper Strike
"Knight-Ridder's problem was it ran out of Knights before it ran out of Ridders."

 

[DanOregon]

Don't most teams control the broadcasts? The network fills in the rest of the programming? Figure Curt Schilling will have a gig before too long.

 

[Batman]

Like I always say when some idiot suggests newspapers go conservative to build circulation back: How do you write a conservative gamer?

Write glowing things about right-handed pitchers and batters, and bad things about lefties?

 

[DanOregon]

"There were good players on both teams...."

 

[MileHigh]

Sinclair had cash on hand after it screwed the pooch with the Tribune sale. Sports is far different than news. Bit surprised. Thought Liberty with MLB would emerge here.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

I won’t be right-wing sports broadcasting. That didn’t work out well for them last year.

It’ll just be really cheap and the quality of the people they have on the broadcast will go down sharply.

Sinclair is the second-cheapest group in TV news (after Nexstar).

This is one instance where I'd be OK with them simulcasting the radio feed, in the Rangers' case. Hell, a lot of Rangers fans already do.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

 

[maumann]

In case you're wondering, Sinclair may need more than big Ballys to pull their collective butts out of the fire. Talk about buying high just before the market for live sports collapsed. Trying to play hardball with YouTube and Hulu didn't help, either.

And it couldn't happen to a better bunch of folks.

Sinclair took a $4.2 billion writedown over its regional sports networks

 

[maumann]

And in a different part of the media universe, looks like AT&T is wondering what value Bleacher Report brings to Turner, which is the same question we all asked when they suddenly shed all of their sports sites except for NBA.com to buy what was basically a content aggregator for a gazillion dollars.

Getting the last laugh. The execs got a huge payday back then for a startup, and now probably a nice golden parachute. I feel sorry for the folks losing their jobs in pricey San Fran, but them's the breaks.

Senior excutives Sam Toles, Alex Vargas, and Miguel DeAvila out at Bleacher Report

 

[heyabbott]

In case you're wondering, Sinclair may need more than big Ballys to pull their collective butts out of the fire. Talk about buying high just before the market for live sports collapsed. Trying to play hardball with YouTube and Hulu didn't help, either.

And it couldn't happen to a better bunch of folks.

Sinclair took a $4.2 billion writedown over its regional sports networks

Only a ****ing demented idiot has ever lost money being the Casino house

 

[poindexter]

NOT SAM TOLES, ALEX VARGAS AND MIGUEL DEAVILA!

 

[Chef2]

Sinclair is the second-cheapest group in TV news (after Nexstar).

Nexstar would have to improve to be considered cheap.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

And they use a file photo of the Atlantic City Bally’s, or as we call it, Sad Bally’s.

 

[exmediahack]

For a guy like me... there could be some REAL opportunity with this Sinclair/Bally's thing on the sports betting angle on the networks.

I'm kind of serious here.

 

[DanOregon]

Looking up the organization that Sinclair is hooking up with - it's about as downmarket as it gets in the gaming sphere. Unless casinos in Missouri, Delaware and Colorado wet your whistle. This isn't "big" Bally's, Vegas Ballys, it's the tangentially related, if only by name - Ballys.